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Imran demands treason case against ex-CJ
PTI chief says giving time to govt but warns of returning to agitationINP
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday predicted general elections might be held this year if the proposed judicial commission into poll rigging takes up the cases pending in election tribunals.
Imran while talking to journalist took an exception to the government, former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Supreme Court former judge Khalilur Rehman Ramday for alleged fraud in the 2013 election. “We will prove that Iftikhar Chaudhry and Ramday controlled returning officers,” the PTI chief said.
He said that the former chief justice committed treason against democracy and should be tried under Article 6 of the constitution. Imran once again ruled out the possibility of the PTI’s return to National and provincial assemblies and warned that any member who violates party policy will be ousted from the PTI.
“We will go to assemblies if the judicial commission declares the election legitimate,” Imran said, adding that the probe commission would not be able to do anything if it is established on the basis of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) draft. He said that the PML-N was scared of the judicial commission.
Imran said that his party was giving time to the government after the Peshawar tragedy and warned that it should not remain in any misgiving as they would restart the protest against rigging in elections if the judicial commission is not formed as they have the street power.
The PTI chief said that if the PML-N was certain that there was no rigging, it should agree to the draft of terms of reference for the judicial commission. He said that the PTI would present the two drafts before the nation and people would themselves come to the conclusion that the PML-N should accept the PTI draft if its hands were clean.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk